Kremlin-friendly pundits and programs have been savoring every shot of protesters in Los Angeles this week, some proclaiming that the United States must be in midst of a new "civil war."

“I can’t help gloating over it all, I admit,” Mardan said on-air on Rossia-1. “The worse it is for the United States, the better it is for us.”

As Cherkasov pointed out, “Cheering over unrest in the United States is standard fare for the Kremlin and Kremlin-friendly media.”

The rhetoric is well-practiced and hardly new, he added.

“These outlets have, after all, come up with surveys that purportedly show America as their country’s main adversary for the last 20 years.”

Much of the pro-Putin coverage that depicts the Los Angeles area as “apocalyptic,” Cherkasov said.

But he noted that some broadcasters in the United States have been using similar language, at least some of the time.

  • ExLisperA
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    3 days ago

    It’s not a civil war only because no one is fighting back.